Odisha BJP Sought against the scam in ‘Mo Cycle’ scheme
Bureau,Odishabarta
Bhubaneswar: The BJP activists held a demonstration here on Monday alleging massive corruption in the “Mo Cycle” project and demanded arrest of all Government officers involved in the scam.
The BJP activists, led by Bhubaneswar district unit president Babu Singh, took out a rally from the party office to Sishu Bhawan square and demanded that the Government should recover the money from the officers.
The BJP alleged that the Government had bought 2,000 bicycles at Rs 25,000 each in 2018 and spent Rs 1 crore more for their maintenance under the “Mo Cycle” project with an objective to help people to commute from one place to another at a cheaper rate in the capital city. A 37-km long coloured cycle track was also created for easy movement of the cyclists.
Singh said these cycles were sold as scrap to a scrap dealer at Rs 500 each and sought a clarification from Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation and Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited as to how the cycles fitted with GPS landed in a scrap yard at Dumduma.
Singh demanded a thorough investigation into the scam. He questioned the silence of both the BMC and the BSCL and not filing FIR to inquire into the scam even after it was widely reported in the media.
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